Last week one of our clients reported trouble with a csv file I generated with write.table. He said that columns with quotes for character variables were rejected by their data importer, which was revised to match the way Microsoft Excel uses quotation marks in character variables. I explained to them that quoted character variables are virtuous and wise, of course, but they say Microsoft Excel CSV export no longer quotes characters unless they include commas in the values.
They showed me a CSV file from Excel that looked like this x1,x2,x3,x4 5 6 fred,barney,betty,x bambam,"fred,wilma",pebbles,y Note how the quotes only happen on row 2 column 2. I was surprised it did that, but now I have some pressure to write a csv maker that has that structure. Its weird, even when there are spaces in values there are no quotation marks. Has anybody done this and verified that it matches CSV from MS Excel? If I succeed will you consider a patch? pj -- Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
